Use Your Own Data with Azure OpenAI

• Azure OpenAI on your data allows organizations to deploy GPT-style chats which incorporate enterprise data sources such as files.
• Unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI on your data does not use enterprise data to adjust the underlying language model or make the data available to other organizations.
• Developer tools such as plug-ins and the Semantic Kernel enable custom applications to orchestrate access to data sources, APIs, and large language models.

 In June 2023, Microsoft released Azure OpenAI on your data (the italics are Microsoft’s and are apparently branding) into public preview. Azure OpenAI Services are a collection of advanced machine learning models developed in partnership with OpenAI. These services include several versions of the GPT large language model (LLM), which drives OpenAI’s public ChatGPT natural language generation service. Azure OpenAI on your data will enable customers to combine Azure OpenAI models with the customer’s own data for tasks. For example, a municipality might deploy a chat site that allows citizens to ask when a snowplow will arrive on their street; Azure OpenAI would then consult the city’s data and pass it to the LLM.